I Can Do Nothing

I want to devote myself to you, but I lack love −
  All my attempts to sit at your feet have come to naught.
For some reason my mind is out of control.
  When I wish to do good deeds, I lack will power;
  When I wish to give in charity, I lack the means;
I do not know how to honour priests and guests.
I have no mercy for my fellow humans in my heart,
  Nor can I do anything for them.
I do not know how to surrender to my Master,
  Nor how to serve the saints.
I cannot perform rites and rituals,
  Nor can I renounce the world.
I cannot go to dwell in forests,
  Nor can I control my senses.
When I wish to make pilgrimages, my heart is not in it;
  When I wish to make vows, I do not know how.
Even though I say that God resides within me,
  The feelings of ‘me’ and ‘you’ still remain.
All these weaknesses have led me to surrender to you.
I have no more worries now, says Tuka,
  Since I have no need of past merits
  And I have become your marked servant.
_{Tukaram, The Ceaseless Song of Devotion}